Re: bash 3.2.39 -- race condition

[Eric Blake]

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According to Marc Herbert on 11/30/2009 3:18 AM:
> A long time ago I read somewhere that aliases are not recommended. I
> think they do not bring anything on the table compared to functions, do
> they?

There is one thing that aliases can do that functions cannot - and that is
control how the rest of the statement is parsed.  This can be exploited to
write an alias for find that calls a function with globbing temporarily
turned off for the rest of the statement; the function then restores
globbing state after executing the real find under the hood.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/aliases.html

But yes, other than cool hacks like that, functions are almost always
hands down more powerful than aliases.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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